0 a small, brown bird that is shot for sport or food, or the meat of this bird:
Quails' eggs are considered to be a delicacy.
1 to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it:
2 a small brown bird with a short tail, sometimes hunted as a sport and eaten as a food
I named quince and quails, and they were the only ones which the author of the competition had thought of either.
I am pleased that some train operators have not quailed at the technical obstacles that make it difficult to carry cycles on trains.
I suppose one quails at the cost of infinite fragmentation.
I understand that his agricultural experience consists in his constituents fattening quails.
Little wonder that most local authorities are already quailing at the task that lies ahead.
We all remember the days of the county clerk who quailed councillors.
They very seldom come here, but in recent years a trade has grown up of importing these quails in large numbers alive.
Quails might escape from a farm but, we understand, would not be able to survive outside it.
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鵪鶉, 害怕, 退縮…
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codorniz, temblar, acobardarse…
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codorna, estremecer…
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reculer (devant), (de) caille…
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třást se, couvat, křepelka…
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vige tilbage, vagtel…
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